I think I was about 10 when the Apollo thing first happened - my Dad let us stay up to see it, on our TV it was happening very late at night - about 12 midnight
(Not sure I agree about Ike. One thing Hitler is justly famous for, in Europe, is his Autobahn system, which is still used heavily. Infrastructure worked for both these men, it seems - maybe it was the trend of the times. But the European Space Program is a shambles, underfunded and very very sad compared to NASA).